THE CORPUS ANALYSIS OF THE MOST FREQUENTLY USED VERBS IN NEWS ARTICLES

Nidya Rosidatus Zahara, 1723143122 (2018) THE CORPUS ANALYSIS OF THE MOST FREQUENTLY USED VERBS IN NEWS ARTICLES. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

One of the most important point in English language proficiency is the use of proper vocabulary, especially the verbs to express the idea. The knowledge of verbs can be used to support in improving the students’ skill in communication well. It also occurs in understanding news report text. In news articles, the use of proper verbs become the most important point in order to deliver the informaton to the readers well. The proper verbs can be known by understanding the most frequent verbs used in news artcile. Thus, the researcher was interested to study the most frequent verbs used in news article. The question that formulated by the researcher is “What are the most frequently used verbs in news article?” The purpose of the study is to know the most frequently used verbs in news article. Research Method: 1) the research design in this study was corpus based study, 2) the data being analysed was corpus of news articles which taken from the Fox News, 3) the data analysis was conducted by using corpus-specialized freewares, AntConc and TagAnt, in generating word list and the frequency, and then the result of the verbs were categorized according to Levin’s (1993) English verb classes. The result revealed verbs that mostly used in news article are verbs of communication, with a number of percentage 18.64%. The verbs of communication was frequently used to communicate or to deliver the information or the facts to the readers. It also used in quotation sentences as a comment from individual or people involved in the events or the incident. Besides, the researcher also found that communication verbs used to show the sources of the information in order to present the accuracy of the story in the news article. The conclusion of this study is, by using verbs of communication, it will make the information could be delivered well to the reader and clarify that the information is accurate. Hopefully, the result of the study can be used by the students to improve their vocabulary of verbs in order to understand news article. Besides, the knowledge of most frequently used verbs could be used by students to select the proper verbs in delivering information or ideas to improve their English communication well.

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